Reading List
The reading list – a day early as I’m off to the taverns and love-dungeons of Brussels for the weekend to teach Belgians how to drink beer.
- Where the Internet Lives – world map with countries scaled based on the number of internet users they have.
- W3C Geofencing API Spec Ready for Comment & Contribution – includes Service Workers for extra zeitgasms
- [selectors4] Features to Defer native CSS
:has()“parent selector” deferred until 2078. - 20 Home Pages, 500 Trackers Loaded: Media Succumbs to Monitoring Frenzy
- Stop Gratuitous UI Animation
- Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the HighwayWith Me in It IoT security is a major challenge when Things can kill you.
- Startup lands $100 million to challenge smartphone superpowers Apple and Google – loads of ex-Mozillians set up “H5OS”, a commercial fork of Firefox OS, funded with Chinese government money.
- The Chinese Firefox OS fork is all about control writes PPK, continuing “this story is definitely worth following but from a political angle, without the HTML5 openness ideological blah” which, in the absence of more information, I tend to agree with, although Xiaomi’s Mi OS based on Android Open Source Project or Alibaba’s Yun OS (also based from AOSP) may be better candidates for a “state” Operating System, if such a thing is planned
- European web law developments < 30 min talk by Heather Burns at WordCamp Europe, June 2015
- Small Pieces Loosely Tied Together With URLs – “”The Network is the Democracy. Our revolution is under attack from reactionary forces. We must storm the barricades.”
- At the limit of Moore’s law: scientists develop molecule-sized transistors – “A red blood cell is a 36,000 times bigger. Even a strand of DNA is 15 times bigger”
- nice nice JPG – “The only image placeholder service on the web bringing you nothing but Vanilla Ice jpgs.”
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Bruce I am rubbish at anything computer techy so most of your site is incomprehensible to me, where are those kind Microsoft people who ring you when you need them. However I came across your replies to spam and just wanted to let you know they had me laughing so much the kids came in to ask what was going on.
Thank you for the laughs Mr Sqidgybum
Erika